CHICAGO — A 56-year-old man was found shot to death after a fire in Avalon Park on Tuesday, officials said.
At 6:37 a.m., police were helping the Fire Department deal with a fire in the 8000 block of South Stony Island Avenue when firefighters found the dead man inside the building, said Officer Kevin Quaid, a Chicago Police spokesman. The man had been shot in his head and was dead.
The Fire Department put out the fire, Quaid said. Police are conducting a death investigation.
The man's death was later determined to have been a suicide, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.
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